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A toothbrush moustache, also known as a Hitler moustache or a Chaplin, is a bushy moustache shaved except for three to five centimetres in the centre of the lip. The sides of the moustache are vertical rather than tapered.

This moustache is most famous for having been worn by film star Charlie Chaplin and later by dictator Adolf Hitler. Chaplin took advantage of this unlikely similarity between the two men for his role in The Great Dictator. The style is now unpopular due to its strong association with Hitler.

In China a trimmer version of this moustache is stereotypical of Japanese people, especially of Japanese soldiers.^{[citation needed]}

Other famous people known to sport a toothbrush moustache include:

• Alexander Vasilyevich Alexandrov
• Merle Allin
• Sepp Dietrich
• Gottfried Feder
• Max Fleischer
• Adolf Galland
• Oliver Hardy
• Martin Heidegger
• Ron Mael
• Zoltán Meskó
• Robert Mugabe
• Julius Kambarage Nyerere
• Marcel Pilet-Golaz
• Karl Plagge
• Sayyid Qutb
• Fritz Sauckel
• Julius Schreck
• Michael Vale (as Fred the Baker)
• Stefan Zweig

An extreme variant of the toothbrush moustache narrows it to the philtrum only. Robert Mugabe is noted for this style.

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